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James. Premio Pulitzer de Ficción 2025. National Book Award 2024 / James (A Novel) (Spanish Edition)

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Governance: A Very Short Introduction

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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman

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The voices counseling peace usually win out for one simple reason: war is ruinous.

“The voices counseling peace usually win out for one simple reason: war is ruinous. It massacres soldiers, ravages civilians, starves cities, plunders stores, disrupts trade, demolishes industry, and bankrupts governments. About 2,500 years ago, the Chinese general Sun Tzu put it aptly in The Art of War: “There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.” Even the bitterest of enemies foresee the consequences of fighting. These costs are terrible. That is why adversaries strive for an arrangement that avoids risk and destruction. One-off killings and skirmishes take place in the heat of the moment. Then cooler heads prevail.”
― Christopher Blattman, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

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“There and in the years that followed, I learned a society’s success isn’t just about expanding its wealth. It is about a rebel group not enslaving your eleven-year-old daughter as a wife. It is about sitting in front of your home without the fear of a drive-by shooting and a bullet gone astray. It is about being able to go to a police officer, a court, or a mayor and get some semblance of justice. It is about the government never being allowed to push you off your land and stick you in a concentration camp. Another economist, Amartya Sen, called this “development as freedom.” It is hard to imagine something more important to be free of than violence.”
― Christopher Blattman, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

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